Apathy American Style
by Abbey Moland
Society has evolved into an oblivion of political and social apathy. Education has hit a downward spiral and a larger partof our future slips between the cracks everyday. Millions of children are victims of abuse and neglect. People die on the streets of starvation. Women must fight for the right to eat. We are guinea pigs for the ad industry. We will buy whatever they sell. We are fighting wars we do not understand simply to maintain our western imperialism. We increase our nuclear weapon reserves daily. Our rights to privacy are slowly being relinquished. Our lives are public knowledge. We have no morality. We have no conscience. Our world is changing, and we are sleeping right through. But maybe worst of all, we don't even care.
Our expressions are somber, our words, few. Political passion and desire for change have somehow leaked out of American culture and we have morphed into a society that "knows, but doesn't care enough to do anything about it." The age of genuine opposition is over and an era of indifference has poisoned society. It seems as though nothing can anger us anymore, or drive us to form a movement of change or revolution. .
It is time to take action. The decisions being made today will
effect our lives, and the future we will live in. Enough with the
apathy, bring in the action, bring in the passion, the conviction, the
desire.